ソフィア・ブッシュさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ソフィア・ブッシュInstagram)「It’s taken me a moment to write this. I still don’t know what to say. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that if we don’t post about these deaths within a day or two of them happening — if we need to process for a moment or want to do some research into calls to action — another name is added to the list. Today, his name is #GeorgeFloyd. • Last night, @lenawaithe wrote, “Being Black In America Should Not Be A Death Sentence. I’m tired of typing ‘Rest in Peace,’ I wish BLACK men could live in peace.⁣” I wish justice was a given. A baseline. A universal truth. I wish it wasn’t available on a sliding scale dependent on race, class, and proximity to affluence. But there will be no justice for George Floyd, because George Floyd will never get his life back. George was murdered. Period. Someone at a grocery store thought he might’ve written a bad check. Might’ve. We could get into a conversation about how poverty and hunger are not crimes, and we as a nation fail our brothers and sisters who don’t have enough to eat, but this is not the moment for that. This is a moment to clarify that no such thing makes a man deserving of death. And certainly not in the manner which you can see in thee video taken of Floyd’s murder. It’s ten minutes long. It was taken by a bystander. Multiple bystanders told police they appeared to be killing George. But they made no move. An officer crushed George’s airway with his knee. For more than ten minutes, but we can witness ten excruciating ones. While he laid face down on the asphalt, with a grown man’s knee in his neck, he begged them to let him breathe. He repeatedly gasped and said, “I can’t breathe.” He told them they were killing him. He gasped for his mother. And the officer made no move. The other three officers present didn’t pull him off the dying man. Bystanders shouted and told the officers to stop. They started filming. Still, no moves were made. George Floyd posed no threat to anyone, handcuffed on the ground. We should not have to witness murders to care about them. And yet we only know what happened because of this video ... [PART1, continued]」5月28日 3時14分